Edmund Clerihew Bentley

The Woman in Black Annotated Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Between what is important and what appears to issue, how could the world we know judge astutely? At the point when the conspiring, unstoppable mind of Sigsbee Manderson was dissipated by a shot from an obscure hand, that world lost nothing worth a solitary tear; it acquired something essential in a cruel token of the uselessness of such abundance as this dead man had accumulated without making one steadfast companion to grieve him, without doing a demonstration that could help his memory to the least honor. Yet, when the information on his end came, it appeared to those living in the incredible vortices of business as though the earth, as well, shivered under a blow. On the whole the shocking business history of his country there had been no figure that had so forced itself upon the psyche of the exchanging scene. He had a specialty separated in its sanctuaries.